The premise behind MobiCamp is simple: come together, think new and speak out. The event is based on popular community-generated “camps” like BarCamp and CaseCamp. There is no cost to participate, but those choosing to attend must agree to truly “participate,” either as speakers or as active audience members. Although the event is being presented by Airborne Entertainment, it is an ad hoc, “open-source” mash-up of interested and interesting individuals looking to help shape the future of mobile by freely communicating their experiences and, more importantly, offering up their visions.

Now, if they actually support people editing the rules and coming up with subsequent community revisions, that’d be pretty cool. Their wiki is actually disguised as a website, so I hope folks will realize that they’re just using a tricked out version of Instiki and can actually edit the thing. Beyond that, maybe they’ll go so far as to make MobiCamp a Community Mark and prove that they’re not interested in owning the event or using it to promote themselves… but I digress. It’s nice to see yet another expansion of the camp concept making its way into new genres, new areas of tech, and most of all, into new communities.

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I understand bar camps have been organized around the world. Where in Asia has this been set up? I think this is cool. No rules so there’s a free flow of ideas where anyone can throw in his two cents worth without fear of being laughed at.